Workforce Coalition

Overview

The Workforce Coalition brings together the people and organizations whose members, employees, and customers depend on working transit: labor, healthcare, hospitality, downtown employers, and corridor-based businesses.

The coalition is a project in its own right. Better transit becomes harder to dismiss when workers, unions, employers, and advocates speak from shared interest.

Motivation

The 2027 transit funding fight gains power when the people who keep the Valley working can speak alongside the organizations that understand the cost of unreliable transportation.

Culinary members ride to the Strip. ATU members operate RTC service. Healthcare workers and hospital systems feel the cost when staff cannot reach shifts. Downtown and Strip employers compete around commute time and parking.

Approach

LVBT will begin where the stake is most direct: unions whose members ride and operate the system, healthcare workers along Maryland Parkway, and employers on the same corridors.

Every conversation starts from shared interest. Members, employees, customers, and businesses all benefit when transit works.

Activities

The coalition will publish partner letters, bring labor and employer witnesses, hold joint events, and use shared language for the 2027 transit funding ask. Those materials will show better transit as a workforce issue with a visible base behind it.

LVBT will also maintain the relationship record behind those commitments: who is participating, which sectors are represented, what concerns they raised, and where their voices will matter in hearings, press, and local campaigns.